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spineshank385
07/31/2006, 07:22 PM
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/o4_srt/UnidentifiedPolyp.jpg


It was a hitchhiker on my LR from the very beginning. It has assexually reproduced a total of 5 times now, for a total of 6 polyps. Polyps are a very cool greenish brown color when they first bud, then fae to the brown/white coloration when they rech full size (about the size of a nickel). Buds then seperate from mother polpy and move a short distance away.

furforfour
07/31/2006, 08:13 PM
I have some of those which also came in as hitch hikers, their skirts are a bit shorter. They are either proto-palythoa or zoanthus gigantus, there has been some discussion lately as to which are which.

msman825
08/01/2006, 02:00 PM
I say a Anemone

spineshank385
08/01/2006, 02:26 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7858097#post7858097 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by msman825
I say a Anemone


:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

its not an anemone

Azurel
08/01/2006, 03:06 PM
I don't think it is an anemone either....But man those skirts are really long.....That is a real cool picture....

twon8
08/01/2006, 04:11 PM
actually i believe those are palythoas,

twon8
08/01/2006, 04:20 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7853517#post7853517 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by furforfour
I have some of those which also came in as hitch hikers, their skirts are a bit shorter. They are either proto-palythoa or zoanthus gigantus, there has been some discussion lately as to which are which.
def not zoanthid gigantus, nor any zoanthid, these pictured take up sand into the base,

spineshank385
08/01/2006, 07:06 PM
i was leaning towards palys....either way, they LOVE mysis shrimp....

john76
08/01/2006, 09:18 PM
looks like aptasia

spineshank385
08/01/2006, 09:26 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7861003#post7861003 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by john76
looks like aptasia


*** are you smoking???

surfnvb7
08/01/2006, 09:48 PM
i say some sort of paly also.

when i looked at how long the skirt is, i'm tempted to say some sort of anemone. but you can clearly see the stalk and another polyp emerging from the base.

any chance you can get a pic of the polyp closed up? (i.e. blow on it with a turkey baster)

spineshank385
08/01/2006, 09:54 PM
ill try to remember to do that tomorrow

spineshank385
08/01/2006, 09:55 PM
its budded 2 polyps that have completely seperated from the parent stalk, and has 2 more small ones that are still attached so far. Lately, it has been budding more and faster than it ever has before.

jallard
08/01/2006, 10:06 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7861057#post7861057 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spineshank385
*** are you smoking???

why is aptasia so hard for you to accept.....I say aptasia too

fwiw I have never seen a paly with a skirt that long

http://www.northcoastmarines.com/pics/pics_on_site/rock_anemone.png

http://www.aiam.info/pic/ffav/Aiptasia%20diaphana2.jpg

spineshank385
08/01/2006, 10:14 PM
because i know what aiptasia looks like. Having been a supervisor at That Fish Place for 2 years, been keeping reef tanks for 5 years, i THINK i know what aiptasia is.

Aiptasia doesn't have a rough, leathery texture to it. Aiptasia doesnt bud daughter colonies. Aiptaisia is mostly brown. not green.


maybe you should take that 2 years of experience into the newbie forums, and stop polluting my thread with things i (and others) have already ruled out

spineshank385
08/01/2006, 10:17 PM
here's a poor picture of it from 4 months or so ago. Only the single large polyp, under 10k lighting, in the middle of the algae bloom. Its slightly closed up.

http://wetwebfotos.com/usermedia/high/2/1222_10.jpg

RevHtree
08/02/2006, 07:34 AM
I vote palys.

smp
08/02/2006, 07:41 AM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7861381#post7861381 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spineshank385
because i know what aiptasia looks like. Having been a supervisor at That Fish Place for 2 years, been keeping reef tanks for 5 years, i THINK i know what aiptasia is.

Aiptasia doesn't have a rough, leathery texture to it. Aiptasia doesnt bud daughter colonies. Aiptaisia is mostly brown. not green.


maybe you should take that 2 years of experience into the newbie forums, and stop polluting my thread with things i (and others) have already ruled out

That's some attitude you've got there.

spineshank385
08/02/2006, 07:48 AM
lol sorry, it was late, and i was pretty freaking tired.

i just dont like uneducated answers like that. If you're going to contribute to a thread, at least make it relevant. I've ruled out aiptasia from day 1. It has never looked, or acted like aiptasia.

the budding further supported ruling out aiptasia, or any kind of anemone. Anemones split. This polyp buds. You can clearly see that in the picture.

twon8
08/02/2006, 07:49 AM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7862603#post7862603 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smp
That's some attitude you've got there.

He knows it's not aptasia, as do I, so I can understand being a little upset when someone asks him why he can't accept that,

I have seen paly's with skirts that long, and that is what they are.

clord
08/02/2006, 10:11 AM
I have something like those in my tank but like 7-10 and much more green its a paly

oddballs
08/02/2006, 10:44 AM
its obvious from the old pic that they are palythoas.but i wasnt convinced that it wasnt an anemone either!just because one person decides what it is and you dont like the anser does not mean its wrong to everyone else on the thread.also this is a public forum not your thread sorry if you were tired but no one deserved that!

john76
08/02/2006, 11:30 AM
Protopalythoa mutuki = correct

amazing that in your five years of extensive research at the

"Thatfishplace Research Facility" you haven't come across one

Hows that for educated?

twon8
08/02/2006, 11:57 AM
actually protopalythoa is being eliminated as a seperate genus, as tests are showing that palythoa and what was called protopalythoa are the same down to the species level.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=899

john76
08/02/2006, 12:16 PM
Protopalythoa mutuki = correct (as of 7/3/06 with research into the reclassification or elimination of the Genus currently underway:) )

jallard
08/02/2006, 04:42 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7862625#post7862625 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spineshank385
lol sorry, it was late, and i was pretty freaking tired.

i just dont like uneducated answers like that. If you're going to contribute to a thread, at least make it relevant. I've ruled out aiptasia from day 1. It has never looked, or acted like aiptasia.

the budding further supported ruling out aiptasia, or any kind of anemone. Anemones split. This polyp buds. You can clearly see that in the picture.


Sorry I didn't "think" I contributed in a negative way with my question or statement. Nor did I insult your intelligence as did you mine. Forgive me I am obviously the Uneducated one.

FWIW people like you should temper your response...this is an open forum and I hardly think you are all knowing since you asked for our help.

oddballs
08/03/2006, 01:37 PM
gotta agree with john 76 on the species.

spineshank385
08/03/2006, 02:27 PM
sweet....thanks!

ZURCSREEF
08/04/2006, 03:38 PM
:D:D:D:D:D hilarious... got to love the "know it alls"

They know everything, but they still have to come on the internet to help get an ID on a paly :)

jallard
08/04/2006, 04:30 PM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7879927#post7879927 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ZURCSREEF
:D:D:D:D:D hilarious... got to love the "know it alls"

They know everything, but they still have to come on the internet to help get an ID on a paly :)

pretty much my point :lol:

spineshank385
08/04/2006, 06:53 PM
i never said i knew it all, i said i KNEW it wasnt aiptasia

ZURCSREEF
08/04/2006, 06:55 PM
You had a algae bloom :o

msman825
08/07/2006, 09:37 AM
WELL what is it??

spineshank385
08/07/2006, 04:01 PM
Protopalythoa mutuki

hrstrnr
08/07/2006, 06:30 PM
LOL Aptasia... I'm glad I got to read all this after the fact. My guess was a Paly morph too... Glad I was right in the end... Too bad I'm not a know it all... But glad I knew it wasn't aptasia either...

spineshank385
08/07/2006, 06:39 PM
i figured it was a paly of some type from the beginning, just didnt know what type, which is why i posted.

my second guess was a tiny heliofungia :rolleye1: